7 Free Tools to Minify your Scripts and CSS

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Post by kadhinn » Sat, May 29, 2010, 11:07 AM UTC

7 Free Tools to Minify your Scripts and CSS
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Re: 7 Free Tools to Minify your Scripts and CSS

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Post by zalew » Sat, May 29, 2010, 11:58 AM UTC

For the Django dudes in here:

http://github.com/miracle2k/django-assets with which you can use your compressor of choice

http://elsdoerfer.name/docs/django-assets/

Re: 7 Free Tools to Minify your Scripts and CSS

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Post by bigstorm » Sat, May 29, 2010, 12:00 PM UTC

For Dojo as mentioned on the post comment

http://dojotoolkit.org/docs/shrinksafe

Re: 7 Free Tools to Minify your Scripts and CSS

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Post by buro9 » Sat, May 29, 2010, 12:01 PM UTC

And they've missed the Google Closure Optimizer for JavaScript: http://code.google.com/closure/

Re: 7 Free Tools to Minify your Scripts and CSS

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Post by ErrantX » Sat, May 29, 2010, 12:04 PM UTC

If anyone uses Kohana I maintain a packaged which wraps the PHP cssmin and jsmin libraries (plus some Kohana juice for serving files/caching)

http://hg.errant.me.uk/minify

There is also a port (or rewrite) for Kohana V3 that someone else maintains http://github.com/zazu/minify

Re: 7 Free Tools to Minify your Scripts and CSS

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Post by pmjordan » Sat, May 29, 2010, 12:11 PM UTC

I'm not sure why YUI Compressor is last on that list, and why it's not mentioned that it also minifies CSS.

Re: 7 Free Tools to Minify your Scripts and CSS

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Post by statenjason » Sat, May 29, 2010, 2:27 PM UTC

Two months ago I hooked up jsmin from a build script for release configurations. It's been helpful to have all of the reader-friendly stuff stripped out automatically without having to store minified copies in source control.

Re: 7 Free Tools to Minify your Scripts and CSS

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Post by ojbyrne » Sat, May 29, 2010, 6:12 PM UTC

pmjordan wrote: post #6

I'm not sure why YUI Compressor is last on that list, and why it's not mentioned that it also minifies CSS.

Last could be a position of honor. And he mentions that it produces higher compression ratios.

Re: 7 Free Tools to Minify your Scripts and CSS

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Post by ojbyrne » Sat, May 29, 2010, 6:13 PM UTC

statenjason wrote: post #7

Two months ago I hooked up jsmin from a build script for release configurations. It's been helpful to have all of the reader-friendly stuff stripped out automatically without having to store minified copies in source control.

That's obviously a best practice. Minified code is essentially object code.

Re: 7 Free Tools to Minify your Scripts and CSS

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Post by mike-cardwell » Sat, May 29, 2010, 6:30 PM UTC

I wrote a couple of articles a while ago about minifying css/javascript on the fly. They utilise a mod_perl handler which intercepts outgoing css/js and compresses them on the way out.

https://secure.grepular.com/Compressing_CSS_on_the_Fly

https://secure.grepular.com/Compressing_JavaScript_on_the_Fl...